The Carnelian Exile

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"I am always the same, do you see? I do not change. I proceed on the same path I always have. I am only one choice: and I will be content only when I have no choice at all."[1]

The Carnelian Exile is a mysterious nomad[2] who speaks laconically and has an irksome habit of answering others' questions before they can finish asking.[3][4] She was exiled from her home at Port Carnelian for joining the New Sequence, and she later severed all ties to the Dawn Machine as well.[5] She still has the characteristic bright golden eyes of the Machine's followers, however, so she keeps them concealed with dark sunglasses.[6]

The Exile is a strong believer in predestination and destiny:[7] she believes neither she nor her path may change, and seeks a state of being where she has "no choice at all."[8] To this end, she wants to one day travel to the Uttermost East.[9] Unfortunately, though she has heard the way East through Salt's song,[10] she cannot enter Frostfound to retrieve Salt's name and undergo the journey herself,[11] and she worries her time may be running out.[12]

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  1. ↑ Invite her to dine with you, Sunless Sea
  2. ↑ Engage an Officer: the Carnelian Exile, Sunless Sea "A dark-spectacled woman marches up to you, [...] I am no longer welcome here... and I will show you where we need to go.""
  3. ↑ Character description, Sunless Sea "She has the discomfiting - even irritating - habit of answering your questions just before you finish speaking."
  4. ↑ Increase your Mirrors, Sunless Sea "She says little, but each word is placed like a pin in a map."
  5. ↑ Bread and Salt, Sunless Sea ""I am persona non grata in Port Carnelian," the Exile remarks. "I was too close to the New Sequence, and the Machine. I have repented of that now, but I'll never go home.""
  6. ↑ Invite her to dine with you, Sunless Sea "She removes her glasses, [...] Her own eyes are marvellously bright. [...] "I've been touched by the Dawn Machine. I believe you already knew that, or you wouldn't have asked me to remove my spectacles."
  7. ↑ "The zee is wide, but I'll always return home.", Sunless Sea ""Destiny is destiny," she says softly."
  8. ↑ Invite her to dine with you, Sunless Sea ""I am always the same, do you see? I do not change. I proceed on the same path I always have. I am only one choice: and I will be content only when I have no choice at all.""
  9. ↑ Bread and Salt, Sunless Sea ""Salt's Song," [...] Will you go East, my captain? Will you take me with you?""
  10. ↑ Bread and Salt, Sunless Sea ""Salt's Song," [...] "I hear it on the wind. The way East. [...]"
  11. ↑ "The zee is wide, but I'll always return home.", Sunless Sea "If the time comes for you to claim your burning name [...] I cannot enter the Name's prison. Not any more." She taps her glasses."
  12. ↑ Story description, Sunless Sea "NACREOUS OUTCAST: Intheth nath Frosttfhounf! [...] CARNELIAN EXILE: No. No more. The stars are hungry. I'm running out of time."
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